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You can zoom on both of these quite a bit. The leftmost cake isn't fruiting at all (any suggestions?) so I left it out of the after pic. Lookin like some nice fruits so far. I've already picked 7.6g dried before I put them into the terrarium. Thinkin of taking 15g wet tonight for my first ever trip. Wet is more potent than dry, otherwise I'd take 2g dry.

Also, see the shroom at the very bottom?? That was a piece of substrate that fell off, but I put it in there as an experiment to see if that small piece would grow a shroom. In the last 4 hours, the shroom has gotten so big it's flipped itself over.

The leftmost cake in the bottom picture was the last to fruit, but appears to be having the most pins so far.

They are. I took 13g wet last night, which is less than I was going to take (15g wet). What a fuckin night. I was scared shitless for the first hour of the trip. My stomach was churning, I was way too anxious, hungry, and felt sick. I couldn't find a balance. I almost threw up when I chewed up some Tums, but after I get them down, I felt fine. Certainly a strange drug. It was kinda cool.

bacha....if you have a 10 gram wet mushroom...it will, give or take a little, weigh down to one gram, wet:dry ratio is 10=1so 15 grams wet would equal 1.5 grams dry.

The reason that fresh mushrooms are "stronger" is because when you eat mushrooms, the chemical psylocibin gets turned into psilocin by your body which then reacts with the receptors in your brain i believe.(I am by NO MEANS a human biologist, this is just MY understanding of the process)a Fresh mushroom already has BOTH psilocin AND psylocybin , but when you dry the mushrooms the active psilocin is destroyed by the drying process. Thusly leaving only the psylocybin and no more psilocin. Thats why 15 grams of fresh mushrooms might equal to 2 grams dried.

This is only my understanding, if it is wrong please feel to inform, but this is what i gathered from reading posts and information.

--------------------"The key to successful cultivation is to match the skills of the cultivator with the right strain on the proper substrate under ideal environmental conditions."
Paul Stamets
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms(Third Edition)

--------------------"The key to successful cultivation is to match the skills of the cultivator with the right strain on the proper substrate under ideal environmental conditions."
Paul Stamets
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms(Third Edition)

Yup, the psilocin is the active substance that people "trip"off of. As stated above, both psilocin and psilocybin are ina fresh mushroom. However, psilocin is not stable and will react with oxygen in the air and because it is a indole itwill turn blue (hence the blueing on a mushshroom when brused)The lucky thing here is that psilocybin is stable enough that it will be preserved when dried, otherwise everyone would berequired to eat fresh mushroom:) One should note that the psilocybin is not completely non-reactive and will break downwith oxygen, and this reaction is sped up if heat is involved as a catalyst. (so store your dried mushrooms in a sealed containerin a cool dark place)puggy

Yeah, mine are cracker dry, wrapped in 2 paper towels, in a ziplock, in a tupperware, in the freezer. Those bitches are staying potent damn it! I'm toying with the idea of making chocolates. It degrades potency, but when you have more shrooms than you know what to do with, I guess who cares, right?